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Muth: Conservageddon ’16: Legislative tax hikers are dropping like flies

Despite all the money and all the endorsements from Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval which have been bestowed upon Republican state legislators who voted for his $1.4 billion tax hike last session, the tax-hikers are paying a heavy price.

Myers: Where are the evangelists?

Martin Niemöller: “For in our world and in our name have these things been done.”

Knightly: Why the Disney apology matters

The people of Pahrump received an apology from Disney. From what I’m being told, that is no small feat.

Letter: Yucca Mountain advocacy tarnished

Recent “Community Viewpoints” these past two Friday’s in the Times reflect a myopic absolutism and mis-information about atomic power that has been characteristic of arguments against the Yucca Mountain repository for spent nuclear fuels (SNF’s).

Letters to the editor

Thank you from disabled American veterans

Muth: ‘Mexican’ judge doing Trump a YUGE favor

You know what I like best about this latest Donald Trump brouhaha over the possibly biased judge hearing his Trump University case? The fact that the weak links among the GOP’s elected elites are exposing themselves NOW rather than in the fall.

Haynes: ‘I am America’

“I am America,” Muhammad Ali famously declared. “I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me – black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.”

Knapp: Payday loans and unintended consequences

In 2010, Congress passed and president Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Dodd-Frank created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and authorized it, among other things, to regulate “payday lending.” Six years later, the CFPB has finally issued new rules proposals pursuant to that power. The proposals are bad news for both lenders and borrowers.

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